Current Action Alerts

February 15th, 2024

WOC events in NYC – March 2024

As part of the Women’s Ordination Conference’s status as an NGO in consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), we host parallel events at the UN Commission on the Status of Women each year. This year, we have a pair of events coming up coinciding with the CSW in March: About…
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December 21st, 2023

What we learned in 2023

Here at the Women’s Ordination Conference, 2023 will be remembered as the year women voted for the first time at the Vatican. The years-long effort for Votes for Catholic Women, spearheaded by WOC and partner reform organizations came to fruition this past October as 54 women voted inside the synod hall for the first (and…
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November 21st, 2023

Register for Advent Taize: The Sacrament of Darkness

Join WOC on December 21 at 8 pm ET for a contemplative evening of Taize prayer called, “The Sacrament of Darkness.” On the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, in the heart of Advent waiting and preparation, we will look to the grace that divine darkness offers. Our prayer will also feature preaching from writer…
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September 13th, 2023

Save the date for WOC’s 48th

This November (17-19), the Women’s Ordination Conference will commemorate our 48th anniversary with a virtual gala and auction: “Synodality and the Fierce Urgency of Equality: The Call for Women’s Ordination Now.” Our theme refers to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s prophetic phrase, “the fierce urgency of now,” which he spoke of on August 28th, 1963…
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August 9th, 2023

Join our global “Walk With Women” event on October 6

On October 6th, WOC is organizing a “Walk with Women,” a procession through Rome to the synod hall to encourage the church to walk alongside women as equals throughout the synod and beyond. Together with our global sisters, we will begin at the site of the relic of the foot of St. Mary Magdalene, Apostle to the Apostles,…
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June 27th, 2023

WOC-a-Thon Impact Day: June 29, 2023

You already know that WOC is creative, courageous, uncompromising, and faith-filled. But we are also bold. And leading up to the end of our fiscal year, we want to do something really bold. We have the *audacity* to believe our grassroots network has the power to help us raise $15,000 (or more!) in one day. Mark your calendars: Thursday, June…
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May 19th, 2023

Pentecost Taizé service

On May 31, WOC hosted an evening of contemplation with a Pentecost-themed virtual Taizé service. With song, scripture, silence, and inspired preaching by Sister of Charity Louise Lears, we celebrated (and will continue to celebrate!) when the Holy Spirit came down upon the apostles, of all genders, empowering them to prophesy and do the work…
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April 3rd, 2023

Vocations Sunday 2023

On “Vocations Sunday,” or the annual World Day of Prayer for Vocations, the institutional church prays for an increase in vocations to the priesthood.  Women are standing on the “prophetic edge” of the church, denied the opportunity to stand in roles of meaningful leadership or ordained ministry. They have worn out their shoes walking the…
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March 17th, 2023

WOC is hiring: Development Associate

Job Description Position Title: Development Associate Reports to: Executive Director Organizational Description: Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC) is a feminist non-profit organization that advocates and prays for the ordination and the full equality of women in an inclusive and accountable Roman Catholic Church. Position Summary: WOC seeks a highly motivated and organized individual to support the…
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January 18th, 2023

Join our “Wildflowers of the Grassroots”!

Do you want to get involved with the movement for women’s ordination, but wonder where to start? Join WOC for a conversation about our network of local leaders on February 11! Learn about our “Wildflowers of the Grassroots,” where empowered supporters of ordination justice contribute their unique skills and talents to keep the movement growing…
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